DVBLink Boxee app will work on any platform where Boxee itself can run - e.g. Windows, Linux, Mac and Boxee box itself.The DVBLink app can be downloaded from our repository at http://www.dvblogic.com/boxee

CrashingDutchman wrote:Whatever I try to use for my server, I always get a 'Error connection to DVBLink server'. The server's name is HTPC, I have tried that, but to no avail. Also, the servers IP doesn't work.

Any suggestions?

You have to install dvblink connect! server for boxee app to work. Also for v4.0.1 you need to enter port 8080 instead of 39876.

with latest boxee, latest dvblink app, when i want to go from an channel to another, with ", " and "." sometimes image freeze, sound is repeating , boxee freeze and after few second next channel is started and all is ok.

I gave Boxee a shot with the client as a possible alternative to WMC but It was nowhere near as useable and the picture nowhere near as crisp as WMC so all in all Its a big step forward for Boxee uusers but not a patch on WMC

I picked up a D-Link Boxee "box" yesterday just to give the Boxee application a spin to see if there was any possible way for it to replace my Xbox 360 extender setup in the living room (mainly because the video playback using Media Browser is buggy and continues to lock up our system - reinstalls tried).

The actual installation of the application worked smoothly once I found out about the port change in v4.0.1. Took me a couple of minutes to get it working, and the picture quality is what I would expect it to be. HD channels stream beautifully, same ofcourse with HD channels.

However!

I miss a few things, but I am not sure if this is a limitation in Boxee itself, or within the application.

1) I miss a "real" guide, like in the iPhone application, that can give overview. Non-existing WAF on missing overview EPG.2) When going to the list of channels, video playback halts. It would be great if we could get a shortcut to bring up the EPG and still let the video stream do it's magic in the background.

I would like to suggest trying to mimic the dreambox TV user interface and functionality - if it's even possible, that is. That would increase the WAF and be a good step on the way to make a Boxee application that can take over the Xbox 360 Extender functionality (at a much lower cost, both first purchase and power usage).

Oh, and not to mention that Boxee itself has a problem mounting SMB shares from newer (Windows Server 2008+) systems. A manual "noserverino" mount option has to be added somehow to allow a Linux Samba machine to mount the filesystem, and I have yet to figure out how to do this with the Boxee so no input on how the D-Link version handles other video playback.

All in all - I think I'll factory reset the D-Link Boxee and return it to the store. Neither the DVBLogic application nor the video playback functions are what I expected. :-/